I know I promised never to do this but everyone loves remembering old chocolate bars don't they?
Ah remember old chocolate bars? Remember 1500bc when the Olmec Indians cultivated the first cocoa bean? Remember 900ce when the elite in Mayan society began to drink unsweetened cocoa?
Nostalgia is fun!
While we are at it, let's remember old t.v shows as well.
Remember 1897 when Karl Ferdinand Braun, a German physicist, invented the first cathode-ray tube? And 1907,when, Boris Rosing transmitted black-and-white silhouettes of simple shapes, using a mechanical mirror-drum apparatus as a camera and a cathode-ray tube as a receiver?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
The big sports.
I've decided to get into a new sport. Not play one, but follow one. I only really like tennis at the moment, it's easy to follow because it's only on 4 times a year. I like premiership football also, but it hasn't been the same for me since King Kev left the toon and Shearer and Ferdinand were playing up front. I think it's too late for me to get into rugby. It's like I'd be jumping on the bandwagon. I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't that popular here and now every Tom, Dick and Harry answers Ireland's call. I could go American, they have loads of sports. But I think I prefer movies about American sports rather than the sports themselves. Space Jam. The might ducks 1 and 2 (haven't seen 3). Moneyball. That really long one about American football with Al Pacino. Golf! Golf is big. Ireland are the champs. But watching golf just makes me want to play golf on the Xbox or iPad. Snooker! Not a sport. F1! Tried before. It's on when we are eating dinner on a Sunday so I can't watch it.
Cricket! YES CRICKET!
Its not very popular here but we have an up and coming international team! Neil Hannon wrote an album about it! It can be easily followed online and entire tournaments are covered on the radio!
I just need to learn the rules!
Follow me on my amazing journey into the world of cricket!
First task.
Check what teletext page it's on.
BBC 1 page 340!
Cricket! YES CRICKET!
Its not very popular here but we have an up and coming international team! Neil Hannon wrote an album about it! It can be easily followed online and entire tournaments are covered on the radio!
I just need to learn the rules!
Follow me on my amazing journey into the world of cricket!
First task.
Check what teletext page it's on.
BBC 1 page 340!
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Remembering Stuff! Part 3
Remember when Columbus discovered America? And wiped out all the natives?
Remembering stuff is fun.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
#wob
#My #journey #into #the #world #of #social #networking #continues #today #with #a #new #wob #twitter #account @wallofblog
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Get with it Grandad!!
Successful multimedia entertainment website, such as wallofblog, need to engage with social networks to increase flow and deliver users content in way that suits the needs of a modern audience.
It's with this in mind that I have decided to make the leap into web 2.0 and set up the first wallofblog social network.
So open up your myspace accounts and add
www.myspace.com/wallofblog
It's cooler than a billion dollars.
It's with this in mind that I have decided to make the leap into web 2.0 and set up the first wallofblog social network.
So open up your myspace accounts and add
www.myspace.com/wallofblog
It's cooler than a billion dollars.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
I'm really going.
They all said "sure he'll not go back at all, he has a great time on the dole, living with mammy and daddy. He wouldn't work to warm himself that fella, he is just using china as an excuse not to get a job"
SHUT UP
I am not afraid of work. It's just hard work I don't like.
Anyway, Look at this. I am actually going.
Not for a few weeks though.
Shouldn't have cancelled my netflicks.
SHUT UP
I am not afraid of work. It's just hard work I don't like.
Anyway, Look at this. I am actually going.
Not for a few weeks though.
Shouldn't have cancelled my netflicks.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
IT'S BACK. MOTHER. FUCKING. JIGSAW. NEWS!
Because you demanded it.
I'm going to put this bitch together.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Happy blog day!
Wallofblog, or #wob as it's known as on twitter (it's not), is two years old today! Why not treat yourself and take the time to read every single post from the last two years. I was going to do a poll and let readers vote for their favourite post but it's obviously the one where I say pineapple is nice. I stand by that, it is nice.
I reckon in another two years #wob will be a large multimedia company, covering comedy, creative writing, music and art or it won't be.
Exciting isn't it?
I reckon in another two years #wob will be a large multimedia company, covering comedy, creative writing, music and art or it won't be.
Exciting isn't it?
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Coming Soon!!!
With these exclusive wallofblog t-shirts you can show support for your favorite website and be the hippest coolest dude on campus
Coming soon to the wallofblog online store!
Coming soon to the wallofblog online store!
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Lizard in a Blizzard.
I had planned to spend this afternoon trying to build some of my songs in Garageband for iPad but then I started drinking whiskey and watching 24 and this became too difficult.
I then realised that there was no point working on my own songs in Garageband because I can't use it well enough, and anyway, the charts are full of people shouting nonsense over drums, so I decided to give that a go instead. I cant really use garageband and I dont know anything about music but this is the result.
It's called "Ridin' shotgun (cock n'balls) ohhh"
Click the title for wob soundcloud
Ridin' shot gun (cock n'balls) ohhh
There we go. Pretty hot shit. I've got a hit on my hands.
Rihanna, give me a call, we can work together. I promise I won't try and have sex with you.(I will)
I then realised that there was no point working on my own songs in Garageband because I can't use it well enough, and anyway, the charts are full of people shouting nonsense over drums, so I decided to give that a go instead. I cant really use garageband and I dont know anything about music but this is the result.
It's called "Ridin' shotgun (cock n'balls) ohhh"
Click the title for wob soundcloud
Ridin' shot gun (cock n'balls) ohhh
There we go. Pretty hot shit. I've got a hit on my hands.
Rihanna, give me a call, we can work together. I promise I won't try and have sex with you.(I will)
Friday, March 2, 2012
Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh
I'm not a superstitious person. I'm very rational. I don’t believe in anything. Luck, ghosts, fairies, jesus, magpies, astrology, fortune tellers, horse whispers, tarot cards, god, black cats, lucky charms or zeus. Nothing. There is no one with any mystical control over my life..or so I thought! I recently notice a strange pattern. There is one man that controls everything. Who is this magical man???
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN.
What’s The Boss got to do with anything?? Let me explain. Since Bruce’s creative and critical rebirth in the early 2000s, every studio album of original material he has released has controlled my life. Put simply, when Bruce releases a cool album, things are good. But when he doesn't, they aren’t.
FURTHER ANALYSIS
Let’s start in 2002.
Bruce and the band released their 12th album, The Rising. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, a cool album. Emerging from the horror of 9/11 (much like myself at the time....That’s a tasteless joke. I didn't realise the horror of the event at the time. My diary entry for that day has two words... "Got skittles") Bruce has a fire in his belly and these songs are, for me, a rallying cry. Bruce tells us the way to deal with the bad stuff is to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and enjoy the good stuff. "It's alright, it's alright, it's alright yeah" Bruce sings on the opening track, and everything was. 2002 was great. Minority report was in the cinema, my cousin gave me a play station, I had good friends, the office was on telly, the Rock fought Hulk Hogan at wrestlemania, Ireland were in the world cup, I was happy in the belief that oasis were the best band in the world and I was brilliant at Tony hawk pro skater.
Next, as the war in Iraq raged on into 2005, Bruce went for a largely solo and very angry album, Devils and Dust. I'm not saying this is a bad album. In fact, it’s a very good album. But it's not an album I rush to put on every day. It's a sad album; the songs are sketches of life’s losers. "I know what it's like to fail babe, with the whole world looking on" Bruce sings on "All the way home" and I sure knew it too. I had gone from student of the year, studying astrophysics in one of Irelands top university’s to, in 2005, an almost completely friendless, almost 17 stone minimum wage production line factory worker who spent so much time at the vending machine his fellow factory workers mocked him behind his back. Thanks Bruce.
September 2007
Magic. Besides Born to Run, this is my favourite Bruce Springsteen album. Although it is obviously packed with great songs, it has as much to do with circumstances as with the music. Bruce himself says in the liner notes of 2003s The essential Bruce Springsteen "In any body of work there are obvious high points. The rest depends on who is doing the listening. Where you where, when it was, who you were with when a particular song or album cut the deepest" Everything was right in 2007. I lost most of the weight, grew long hair, was doing well in college, had great friends, a great place to live and drank lots and lots of Guinness. Magic was the soundtrack to this. Every morning, first thing, Radio nowhere was played loud. "Is there anybody alive out there?" Yes there was.
Credit also to 2006s Seeger sessions album and 2007s live in Dublin (although not studio albums of original material, they are great and no doubt played a part in this up swing)
This magic time lasted pretty much to the day his next album came out, January 2009's Working on a Dream. The morning it came out, I went to the shop to get it when I should have been proof reading an economics project that was also due that morning. Both ended up being very average. It has some good songs. It's not a bad album. It’s just not very memorable. That’s about as excited about it as I can get. Since then I've done some good things. It hasn’t been bad. I have had a roof over my head and food on the table. It’s just a bit forgettable and pointless. I finished college (letting my average drop a grade) lost touch with most people and spent all the time since then, bar one extended period, the high point (very much my Outlaw Pete)on the dole, or in pointless jobs.
To-day see’s the release of his latest album “Wrecking ball” so what does the future hold? Well taking on board the brilliant lead single “We take care of our own” the letter that arrived yesterday and the impression I’m getting from the my first listen (I have it on right now!) I’m pretty optimistic.
I was going to make a graph but I can’t be bothered. I have a microwave burger so I’m going to eat that.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN.
What’s The Boss got to do with anything?? Let me explain. Since Bruce’s creative and critical rebirth in the early 2000s, every studio album of original material he has released has controlled my life. Put simply, when Bruce releases a cool album, things are good. But when he doesn't, they aren’t.
FURTHER ANALYSIS
Let’s start in 2002.
Bruce and the band released their 12th album, The Rising. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, a cool album. Emerging from the horror of 9/11 (much like myself at the time....That’s a tasteless joke. I didn't realise the horror of the event at the time. My diary entry for that day has two words... "Got skittles") Bruce has a fire in his belly and these songs are, for me, a rallying cry. Bruce tells us the way to deal with the bad stuff is to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and enjoy the good stuff. "It's alright, it's alright, it's alright yeah" Bruce sings on the opening track, and everything was. 2002 was great. Minority report was in the cinema, my cousin gave me a play station, I had good friends, the office was on telly, the Rock fought Hulk Hogan at wrestlemania, Ireland were in the world cup, I was happy in the belief that oasis were the best band in the world and I was brilliant at Tony hawk pro skater.
Next, as the war in Iraq raged on into 2005, Bruce went for a largely solo and very angry album, Devils and Dust. I'm not saying this is a bad album. In fact, it’s a very good album. But it's not an album I rush to put on every day. It's a sad album; the songs are sketches of life’s losers. "I know what it's like to fail babe, with the whole world looking on" Bruce sings on "All the way home" and I sure knew it too. I had gone from student of the year, studying astrophysics in one of Irelands top university’s to, in 2005, an almost completely friendless, almost 17 stone minimum wage production line factory worker who spent so much time at the vending machine his fellow factory workers mocked him behind his back. Thanks Bruce.
September 2007
Magic. Besides Born to Run, this is my favourite Bruce Springsteen album. Although it is obviously packed with great songs, it has as much to do with circumstances as with the music. Bruce himself says in the liner notes of 2003s The essential Bruce Springsteen "In any body of work there are obvious high points. The rest depends on who is doing the listening. Where you where, when it was, who you were with when a particular song or album cut the deepest" Everything was right in 2007. I lost most of the weight, grew long hair, was doing well in college, had great friends, a great place to live and drank lots and lots of Guinness. Magic was the soundtrack to this. Every morning, first thing, Radio nowhere was played loud. "Is there anybody alive out there?" Yes there was.
Credit also to 2006s Seeger sessions album and 2007s live in Dublin (although not studio albums of original material, they are great and no doubt played a part in this up swing)
This magic time lasted pretty much to the day his next album came out, January 2009's Working on a Dream. The morning it came out, I went to the shop to get it when I should have been proof reading an economics project that was also due that morning. Both ended up being very average. It has some good songs. It's not a bad album. It’s just not very memorable. That’s about as excited about it as I can get. Since then I've done some good things. It hasn’t been bad. I have had a roof over my head and food on the table. It’s just a bit forgettable and pointless. I finished college (letting my average drop a grade) lost touch with most people and spent all the time since then, bar one extended period, the high point (very much my Outlaw Pete)on the dole, or in pointless jobs.
To-day see’s the release of his latest album “Wrecking ball” so what does the future hold? Well taking on board the brilliant lead single “We take care of our own” the letter that arrived yesterday and the impression I’m getting from the my first listen (I have it on right now!) I’m pretty optimistic.
I was going to make a graph but I can’t be bothered. I have a microwave burger so I’m going to eat that.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Good banter/Bad banter
Good banter.
When I was at the wedding on Saturday, late in the evening, I was getting a drink when I spied one of the people working behind the bar eating a packet of tayto. Quick as a flash I quipped "would they not give you your dinner?!!" he loved it replying "oh they would, but they'd make ya pay for it!!"
Brilliant.
Bad banter.
I was in the shop to-day buying a 2 litre bottle of coke. I noticed the label said "part of a multi-pack not to be sold separately". Whilst purchasing, I quipped "you know this isn't meant to sold separately!!". My tone (I thought) implied that I acknowledged the fact that the shop may be being a little bit cheeky, selling multi-pack only items separately for an increased profit margin, but that I didn't care, I even encouraged such behaviour! This was not what the lady working in the shop picked up on and she sternly replied "I know" as if I was criticising the shop's business model.
I felt bad.
When I was at the wedding on Saturday, late in the evening, I was getting a drink when I spied one of the people working behind the bar eating a packet of tayto. Quick as a flash I quipped "would they not give you your dinner?!!" he loved it replying "oh they would, but they'd make ya pay for it!!"
Brilliant.
Bad banter.
I was in the shop to-day buying a 2 litre bottle of coke. I noticed the label said "part of a multi-pack not to be sold separately". Whilst purchasing, I quipped "you know this isn't meant to sold separately!!". My tone (I thought) implied that I acknowledged the fact that the shop may be being a little bit cheeky, selling multi-pack only items separately for an increased profit margin, but that I didn't care, I even encouraged such behaviour! This was not what the lady working in the shop picked up on and she sternly replied "I know" as if I was criticising the shop's business model.
I felt bad.
Monday, February 27, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
There is some truly shocking spelling in this weeks diary. I couldn't decide on the wrong spelling of a word. There is no consistency to my errors. I also took the week of school for some reason. I 100% guarantee I was faking it. And look out for the briefest mention of a legend at the end of Sundays entry.
Friday 26th of February
Got no birthday cards. To-day was good. School was alright. Had a free class for religion. I done my french homework in it.and my maths. Had chips for lunch. It was good fun in English last class. Had pizza for dinner. Saw rugrats. Jim came home saw two simpsons. They were good. saw robot wars. had a cup of tea got no birthday cards. Saw brookside friends never mind the buzzcocks and the young ones
Saturday 27th
My Birthday. I'm 13
Today was just excellent. My Alarm rang at 7:10 by accident. I went into mammy and daddy. They got me a watch and a card. Jim got me luke skywalkwer. I played with him for a while. Made myself a lovely breakfast, sausge egg and rasher. At ten we went to clougher. I got queens greatest hits 2. On the way home I went to the toy quinnsworth. Got han solo and palpatine and a book about fast cars. We done shopping in the real quinnsworth to. When we got home I watched die hard and waynes world 2. Mark was down. Mammy got me a lovely cake and ginger bread men. and strawberry cakes. Breada rang to say happy birthday. Had soup and sandwiches. Sinead rang. I rang nanna. She gave me ten pound. We got chinese. Then we had a birthday party. We had cake caramel buns ginger bread men and seven up. We took photos.
Sunday 28th
When I woke up this morning I got sick. I played with my star wars figures.I didnt go to mass. I made stuffing for dinner. Saw the simpsons. Breada gave me a card and five pound. She gave me the lend of dr dolittle. It was good. I didnt go for a drive. Mark was down. I played the computer. Sean Slowin was here. Got Lucazade. Had a nice tea. Saw E.R
Monday 1st of march
Didnt go to school today. Was sick. Played with my star wars men. Watched braveheart. Went to oldcastle. Didnt go to the doctor. Watched the river wild. Gee was here. Saw Blue peter neighbours the simpsons and hit miss or maybe. Got lucozade and halls soothers. Had a cup of tea. Kennth is renting videos.
Tuesday 2th
Didnt go to school today I was sick went to the doctor. I have a throat infection. I got anty boy odics and domo tap. Was talking to breada. She got the lion king 2.I got a little car in matthew calwells. Had no dinner. I got a bmw and an alfa romeo. Jim is coming home tomorrow. Saw grange hill neighbours fresh prince of bel air home improvement. Watched die hard.
Wednesday 3rd.
Was sick today. Went to oldcastle. Didnt buy a little car. I had no money. Got two sausge rolls lucozade and halls soothers. I rented out a video in kenneths. "Armagadon" It was class. Sile watched it two. She cryed. Went to collect jim in granard. Saw buffy the vampire slayer. Francis rang. Man utd won 2-0. Shite.
Thursay 4th
Today was ok. Got up at 9:15. Jim is home went to oldcastle.Bought a little car. "Mercends bendz" It is yellow. I think it is good. Went to get my hair cut so did jim. Looked at kenneths videos. Had chips and stew for dinner. Played monopoly with myself. Saw grange hill and goosebumps. Daddy got me lucozade and hacks.
So that was my birthday in 1999.
This is it in 2012
Going to look up porn later as well. What a day.
Friday 26th of February
Got no birthday cards. To-day was good. School was alright. Had a free class for religion. I done my french homework in it.and my maths. Had chips for lunch. It was good fun in English last class. Had pizza for dinner. Saw rugrats. Jim came home saw two simpsons. They were good. saw robot wars. had a cup of tea got no birthday cards. Saw brookside friends never mind the buzzcocks and the young ones
Saturday 27th
My Birthday. I'm 13
Today was just excellent. My Alarm rang at 7:10 by accident. I went into mammy and daddy. They got me a watch and a card. Jim got me luke skywalkwer. I played with him for a while. Made myself a lovely breakfast, sausge egg and rasher. At ten we went to clougher. I got queens greatest hits 2. On the way home I went to the toy quinnsworth. Got han solo and palpatine and a book about fast cars. We done shopping in the real quinnsworth to. When we got home I watched die hard and waynes world 2. Mark was down. Mammy got me a lovely cake and ginger bread men. and strawberry cakes. Breada rang to say happy birthday. Had soup and sandwiches. Sinead rang. I rang nanna. She gave me ten pound. We got chinese. Then we had a birthday party. We had cake caramel buns ginger bread men and seven up. We took photos.
Sunday 28th
When I woke up this morning I got sick. I played with my star wars figures.I didnt go to mass. I made stuffing for dinner. Saw the simpsons. Breada gave me a card and five pound. She gave me the lend of dr dolittle. It was good. I didnt go for a drive. Mark was down. I played the computer. Sean Slowin was here. Got Lucazade. Had a nice tea. Saw E.R
Monday 1st of march
Didnt go to school today. Was sick. Played with my star wars men. Watched braveheart. Went to oldcastle. Didnt go to the doctor. Watched the river wild. Gee was here. Saw Blue peter neighbours the simpsons and hit miss or maybe. Got lucozade and halls soothers. Had a cup of tea. Kennth is renting videos.
Tuesday 2th
Didnt go to school today I was sick went to the doctor. I have a throat infection. I got anty boy odics and domo tap. Was talking to breada. She got the lion king 2.I got a little car in matthew calwells. Had no dinner. I got a bmw and an alfa romeo. Jim is coming home tomorrow. Saw grange hill neighbours fresh prince of bel air home improvement. Watched die hard.
Wednesday 3rd.
Was sick today. Went to oldcastle. Didnt buy a little car. I had no money. Got two sausge rolls lucozade and halls soothers. I rented out a video in kenneths. "Armagadon" It was class. Sile watched it two. She cryed. Went to collect jim in granard. Saw buffy the vampire slayer. Francis rang. Man utd won 2-0. Shite.
Thursay 4th
Today was ok. Got up at 9:15. Jim is home went to oldcastle.Bought a little car. "Mercends bendz" It is yellow. I think it is good. Went to get my hair cut so did jim. Looked at kenneths videos. Had chips and stew for dinner. Played monopoly with myself. Saw grange hill and goosebumps. Daddy got me lucozade and hacks.
So that was my birthday in 1999.
This is it in 2012
Going to look up porn later as well. What a day.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
Got this e-mail last night.
I've redacted information you don't need
That's not good news Jerry. That's GREAT news!!
I've redacted information you don't need
That's not good news Jerry. That's GREAT news!!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Sweet Caroline
I'm only invited to things out of politeness. I think most people are. And most people don't want to go. But go out of politeness.
Pretty profound. I might write a song about it someday.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Beardclusion to my beardperiment (conclusion to my experiment)
Have to shave off my beard today as I am going to a wedding tomorrow. I would keep it, I enjoying looking like a diseased tramp, but my mother will cry if I don't shave it off and try to resemble something approaching "respectable"
I can safely say that the whole thing was an absolute disaster. Shaving regularly makes no difference whatsoever to subsequent beard growth.
I am 26 on Monday, can still not grow hair on my face yet it won't grow on my head either. This is not how it is meant to be. I should be at my hairiest.
Anyone who says going bald doesn't matter has not starting losing their hair in their early 20's.
I can safely say that the whole thing was an absolute disaster. Shaving regularly makes no difference whatsoever to subsequent beard growth.
I am 26 on Monday, can still not grow hair on my face yet it won't grow on my head either. This is not how it is meant to be. I should be at my hairiest.
Anyone who says going bald doesn't matter has not starting losing their hair in their early 20's.
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